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June 6th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
I have to respectfully disagree with your position, Lynne. The ones out to change the internet at the moment are in fact the ones behind the Save the Internet campaign. They’re currently supporting legislation to take regulation of the internet out of the hands of the free market, and put it in the hands of Washington.
Do we really want that? Do we really want to bog down yet another emerging industry in the bureaucracy and red tape that infects everything Washington touches? Do we even trust Washington to regulate such an industry effectively?
The advantages of a free market are clear–competition rules, and the consumers vote with their pocketbooks. If you don’t like the way one company is operating, you can simply pick up and leave for another that operates more to your liking. This is how our economy is supposed to work, and how it currently is working. The legislation in Congress now is seeking to change that.
Check out my coalition’s flash video on our website: http://dontregulate.org/
June 7th, 2006 at 7:57 am
The single biggest economic growth factor of the 90’s was only possible because of the low cost of entry.
I don’t doubt that other services might be possible with upgrades that may happen as a result of the financial incentives of throttling
The problem is the comm industry has a very long record of resisting going where their customers want to go.
June 7th, 2006 at 8:24 am
Holy crap.
Hey, hands off the internet, do you live anywhere even slightly near Lowell? Are you even a person, or just a computer program.
Talk about your pre-written astroturf campaign.
I work at a small internet business and Mr Lynne has it right, we need to keep barriers to entry on the internet low if we want to stay ahead of the rest of the world.
June 7th, 2006 at 8:39 am
Jay, I read HOTI’s post and immediately thought “Algorithm scanning blogs and posting.”
As someone who is passionate about Muni WiFi, I support net neutrality 100%.
WF
June 7th, 2006 at 9:13 am
It’s probably not spam, BTW, unless they have some way of putting my name on it. BTW, “Hands off the Internet” is an industry-backed group. This guy is paid for spreading this shit. I bet they have a small army of paid morons who search Google and other blog aggregates for posts like mine, just to “refute” with their “reasonable” arguments (which of course are directly from the mouths of the companies that would benefit from the destruction of Net Neutrality).
June 7th, 2006 at 9:33 am
dontregulate.org is also a shell game for the corps - they are getting smarter in their use of corporate propaganda to pretend to be for the consumer and the little guy, but for god’s sake, do they think we’re stupid? How crass can you get? Pretending to be a grassroots activist.
I’m writing up this incident and posting it on dailykos, bopnews, bluemassgroup, etc. Everyone should be aware of this.
June 7th, 2006 at 10:32 am
“Hands off the Internet” - Paid Shills Popping Up on Small Blogs?
Yesterday, after reading a letter by Josh Silver of FreePress.net on Altercation, regarding the launch of StopBigMedia.com, I wrote a post on my limited-readership local political blog based in Lowell, Massachusetts regarding that launch and the propos…
June 7th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
Astroturf is absolutely right, Jay.
Lynne: “they have a small army of paid morons who search Google and other blog aggregates for posts like mine”
Not morons, Lynne, just a bunch of mercenaries who value greed above principle. All to common in this YOYO society we’re stuck in the middle of.
June 7th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
All right, granted.
But I don’t like ‘em on my blog!
Some claim to be “independent” grassroots people though, like in my dailykos.com post - THOSE people are morons!